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title: "Bro, just vote for me ten times, it's only a poll, don't be a killj… — Why cheating hurts the cheat · tree and pragmatics
description: "Bro, just vote for me ten times, it's only a poll, don't be a killjoy," says Josh's friend. What should Josh do? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 94 «Why cheating hurts the cheat» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 5 · ★ · Why cheating hurts the cheat

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"Bro, just vote for me ten times, it's only a poll, don't be a killjoy," says Josh's friend. What should Josh do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro, friend, Josh · **What happens:** vote, be, do, not be, say · **To what, where:** poll, killjoy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 94 «Why cheating hurts the cheat» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/94-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Bro, just vote for me ten times, it's only a poll, don't be a killjoy," says Josh's friend.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:94-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat:t5:1
# text = "Bro, just vote for me ten times, it's only a poll, don't be a killjoy," says Josh's friend.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	killjoy	killjoy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
24	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	Josh	Josh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | time | for Josh's friend *= friend*; Bro *vocative* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for i=Goal |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Bro | a poll |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a killjoy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Josh's friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* What should Josh do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:94-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat:t5:2
# text = What should Josh do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Josh	Josh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | should | Josh |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Vote ten times, because it's only a poll

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:94-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat:t5:o1:1
# text = Vote ten times, because it's only a poll
1	Vote	vote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	poll	poll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | a poll |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Vote once; one person, one vote

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:94-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat:t5:o2:1
# text = Vote once; one person, one vote
1	Vote	vote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | imperative | you *not said here* | one person and one vote |  |  |  | once *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Vote twenty times to make sure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:94-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat:t5:o3:1
# text = Vote twenty times to make sure
1	Vote	vote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Vote for himself instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:94-why-cheating-hurts-the-cheat:t5:o4:1
# text = Vote for himself instead
1	Vote	vote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obl	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vote** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for himself *= he*; instead *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for himself=Goal |

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